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Staff ML Engineer & AI Architect focused on production systems for ads, marketplaces, personalization, and GenAI. I align architecture, experimentation, and delivery so teams can ship safely at scale.

Current scope

Staff ML Engineer / Data Science Expert — Mercado Libre: Lead ML components for the DSP, design control planes for model rollout/rollback, and coach teams on contracts between data, models, and services. Balance latency, cost, and compliance constraints while keeping observability-by-default.
Advisor / Principal engagements: Standardized ML architecture, CI/CD/CT for models, and feature-store governance. Delivered GenAI evaluators and safety rails for copilots; led uplift experiments and counterfactual simulations for ads measurement.

Focused outcomes

Reliability: Rollback runbooks, shadow deployments, and golden tests to prevent regressions in ranking and ads bidding.
Measurement: Lift estimation frameworks (geo-experiments, CUPED, causal forests) and dashboards for experimentation hygiene.
Platforms: Templates for design docs, schema contracts, and runtime quality gates; reusable pipelines for model delivery and monitoring.

Education

EMBA (Strategic Leadership), Valar Institute.
Ph.D. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics), UNICAMP.
B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering, Military University Nueva Granada.

Skills snapshot

Architecture & MLOps: CI/CD/CT for ML, observability, lineage, governance, and platform APIs.
Modeling: Causal inference, uplift/ads experimentation, GNNs, recommender systems, and GenAI evaluation.
Leadership: Technical direction, standards, mentoring, and exec-facing roadmaps.

Selected case studies

Platform guardrails for ML services — introduced delivery contracts, observability defaults, and rollback playbooks.
Ads incrementality at scale — lift measurement with geo experiments, simulations, and creative experimentation.

Publications, talks, and teaching

State Feedback Control System of a Bar and Beam Using Emulated Hardware in the Loop (HIL)

Caceres, C., Mora, J., Amaya, D., State Feedback Control System of a Bar and Beam Using Emulated Hardware in the Loop (HIL), (2015) International Review of Automatic Control (IREACO), 8 (1), pp. 32-38. doi:https://doi.org/10.15866/ireaco.v8i1.5135

Procesamiento de imagenes para reconocimiento de danos causados por plagas en el cultivo de Begonia semperflorens (flor de azucar)

Caceres Florez, Camilo Andres, Olga Lucia Ramos Sandoval, and Dario Amaya Hurtado. "Procesamiento de imagenes para reconocimiento de danos causados por plagas en el cultivo de Begonia semperflorens (flor de azucar)." Acta Agronomica 64, no. 3 (2015): 273-279.

Mathematical Modeling, Control and Simulation of a Suspension System with Energy Regeneration

Caceres, C., Mora Montanez, J., Amaya, D., Mathematical Modeling, Control and Simulation of a Suspension System with Energy Regeneration, (2015) International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME), 9 (4), pp. 377-381. doi:https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v9i4.6272

Design of a Bio-Inspired Equine Robot Prototype

Caceres, C., Puerta, J., Jimenez, R., Rojas, D., Design of a Bio-Inspired Equine Robot Prototype, (2016) International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME), 10 (1), pp. 12-17. doi:https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v10i1.7672

Simulation, Model and Control of a Quadcopter AR Drone 2.0

Caceres, C., Amaya, D., Rosario, J., Simulation, Model and Control of a Quadcopter AR Drone 2.0, (2016) International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME), 10 (3), pp. 197-202. doi:https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v10i3.8648

Approach to Assistive Robotics Based on an EEG Sensor and a 6-DoF Robotic Arm

Caceres, C., Rosario, J., Amaya, D., Approach to Assistive Robotics Based on an EEG Sensor and a 6-DoF Robotic Arm, (2016) International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME), 10 (4), pp. 253-260. doi:https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v10i4.9323

Development and interaction of a virtual laboratory assisted and controlled by PLC

Caceres, C. A., & Amaya, D. (2016). Desarrollo e interaccion de un laboratorio virtual asistido y controlado por PLC. Entre Ciencia e Ingenieria, 10(19), 9-15.

Design, Simulation, and Control of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot

Caceres, C., Rosario, J., Amaya, D., Design, Simulation, and Control of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot, (2018) International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME), 12 (4), pp. 382-389. doi:https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v12i4.13974

Control structure for a car-like robot using artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms

Caceres Florez, C.A., Rosario, J.M. & Amaya, D. Neural Comput & Applic (2018).https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3514-1

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